Domestication野生动物和家养动物.pptVIP

Learning Objectives -What difficulties did hunter-gatherers face? -What is domestication? -How did domestication allow for an increase in human population? -Is domestication exploitation? Whats your opinion? -Name at least five recent examples of domestication (or part-domestication?). What did our ancestors祖先 eat? Things that they grew in the wild, probably what we would call today hunter-gatherers. In other words, they would gather wild fruits they were growing in nature, wild berries. They would also be hunting wild land animals, they would be fish if they could catch those, they would probably raid birds’ nests for eggs. What might be a difficulty making a living in that way? keep moving to find enough food food poisonous or toxic , having thorns刺, tasting bad Probably hunger or starvation The Pleistocene更新世 Period was a time of hunting and gathering, experimenting with tools, and traveling in the direction of edible plants and animals. The ability to adapt to changing environments and resources was their most important survival mechanism. Evidence has shown that approximately 10,000 years ago, agriculture was being practiced. Archaeologists考古学家 suggest that plant domestication began because of rising populations and changes in exploitation of local resources. In contrast to hunting and gathering as a mode of life, agriculture means modifying the environment in order to exploit it more effectively. Agriculture alters both the animals and plants it domesticates. Ultimately, it changes the very landscape itself. The first cultivation of plants began during this time span(10000 years ago). The plants which were first cultivated were weed plants, such as Lambs Quarters and Marsh Elder. But what is domestication? to train or adopt an animal or a plant to live in a human environment and be of use to humans The process by which a population of animals becomes adapted to humans and to the captive environment by some combination of genetic change occurring